Why Open Bethlehem is the one film you should watch this week – video review

Leila Sansour's documentary Open Bethlehem follows her campaign to stop occupying Israeli forces encircling her hometown with a concrete wall. Sansour's film, which follows her attempts to unite Christians, Muslims and Jews in their desire for free access to the Holy City, is the kind of art that peace processes are built on, says Peter Bradshaw

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Leila Sansour left Bethlehem aged 17, fed up with conflict and small-town restrictions. But when she went back in 2004, she fell in love with it – she’s spent 10 years making a deeply personal film about the disintegration of the city and of her own family